Things to do (per our wedding planner/owner of the venue):

*Ship Wrecked - cute tiny book store on Historic Reed Street (HRS) near Che Figata that has a limited but delicious menu of all homemade items for breakfast and lunch on weekends and weeknights with handcrafted cocktails after hours!

*Coxsackie General Store - also a super cool store with staples for the kitchen and more packaged goods for sale, think small town local grocery store that sells upscale goods…and grab a great cappuccino too;-)

*Unquiet Upstate - a super cool eclectic shop with antiques and oddities, on weekends the owner Sarah Gray showcases local chefs in ‘to go’ containers and fun pot luck style dining …or specialty nights like Cajun …she usually has live music too. She’s also opened Ravish Liquors, a unique speakeasy vibe very popular with out of towners.

*Lime Kiln Farm - If you want to bring home farm goods and meats you MUST visit. It’s a great time spent in their storefront but more on their farm seeing all the animals and talking to Brent and Alessandro

*Black Horse Farm is a year round specialty items and organic meats cheese and produce. Fresh soups and baked goods, plants too!

*Hi-Way - drive in movie theater

*ski/snowboarding at Hunter or Windham about 35 minutes away...Jiminy Peak is about 45 minutes …they offer summer activities as well just look them up

*Walk the Rip Van Winkle Bridge!...beautiful scenic views of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains

*Olana State Historic Park...the Fredrick Church mansion built overlooking the Hudson and 250 acres of unbelievable beauty and quintessential Hudson Valley. Trails, the mansion...lot's of beauty there and the city has now put a walking path connecting the Thomas Cole House to Olana (walking path crosses the RVW Bridge!)

*Kaaterskill Falls and North / South Lake trails...wow...great fun and beautiful scenery all around North South Lake hiking trails. Kaaterskill is a little aggressive.

*RamsHorn-Livingston Audubon sanctuary in Catskill ...beautiful walk bike kayak ... or just sit and enjoy

*The Willows nature conservancy - On County Rt 385; trails all around a beautifully restored 1700’s house…Also on 385 is the Vosberg Swamp conservancy and the Cohotate Preserve Trails.

*Steve’s Vintage Clothes

*Mahalo is a great shop if you need gifts for little ones.

*Hudson River Waterfront Park...downtown Coxsackie just off Reed Street. While there stop into the very cute Reed Street Bottle Shop (very cool hard alcohol options in here) and their sister shop Pilot Paper House (cards journals calendars books...nice!). The entire historic Reed Street is worth a trip…you may catch bald eagles flying over the Hudson River at the waterfront park off Reed Street. New shops are opening all the time as gentrification becomes the norm for what was a sleepy little Hudson River town.

A drive up the mountain offers great views but can also land you at Jessie’s Harvest House, true farm to table movement and well worth the scenic drive!!

If you like all thing vintage of clothes, jewelry, variety, antiques you MUST go to the Coxsackie Antiques Center on 9W about 2 miles north of us (if you took the Thruway and get off the Coxsackie Exit you will pass it on your way to the Nest). You could spend hours in there alone! Keep heading north a few more miles and you will see Pickers Nation...on the right side of 9w. Similar to the Antiques Center but slightly smaller!! All of these are just minutes away and well worth a trip.

Hudson's Warren Street...too much to list. Antiques, eateries, shoppes, the upstate mecca for all things city people love and it's super crowded;-) Food is pricey...usually worth it but more local places are giving them a run for their money ha! Feast & Floret is another favorite. Baba Louies is a Hudson ‘staple’...as is Cascades for lunch and Red Dot for hi end pub/restaurant atmosphere. Little Deb’s Oasis is really popular for Carribean food. Verdigris Tea is on lower Warren Street and has the best cookies and baked goods with a huge loose tea collection and various brewing apparatus to make the perfect cup…great gifts for tea lovers. Talbot & Arding on the corner of 2nd and Allen has an unbelievable selection of cheeses and homemade goods…expect to pay $$$$.

WM Farmer & Sons, Merchants Social, Nine Cakes and The Maker are the hot spots currently (at least that I know of;-) A recent guest said they had a lot of fun making their own candles at a shop on Warren Street…maybe worth investigating’.